Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2009-3rd Year B.C.A Computer Application .>>MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES>>E .>> - Question Paper

B.C.A. DEGREE exam –
JUNE 2009.
Third Year
MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES
Time : three hours Maximum marks : 75
PART A — (5 x five = 25 marks)
ans any 5 ques..
1. What is SWOT? List its uses.
2. What are the limitations of OR?
3. How to identify a degenerate solution?
4. What do you mean by resource leveling?
5. What are the various forms of organization structure?
6. How will you identify multiple optimal solutions in a transportation problem?
7. Discuss the importance of replacement models.
PART B — (5 x 10 = 50 marks)
ans any 5 ques..
8. What are the 14 principles as put forth by Henri Fayol?
9. What are the managerial significance of duality? You may presume a primal issue to discuss the identical.
10. A manufacturer produces electric hand saws and electric drills, for which the demand exceeds his capacity. The production cost of a saw is Rs. six and the production cost of a drill Rs. 4. The shipping cost is
20 paise for a saw and 30 paise for a drill. A saw sells for Rs. 9.00 and a drill sell for Rs. 5.50. The budget allows a maximum of Rs. 2,400 for production costs and Rs. 120 for shipping costs. Determine the number of saws and drills that should be produced in order to maximize the excess of sale over production and shipping costs.
11. An airline company has drawn up a new flight schedule involving 5 flights. To assist in allocating 5 pilots to the flights, it has asked them to state their preference scores by giving every flight a number out
of 10. The higher the number, the greater is the preference. Certain of these flights are unsuitable to a few pilots owing to domestic reasons. These have been marked with a *.
Flight
No. I II III IV V
Pilot A 8 2 * 5 4
B 10 9 2 8 4
C 5 4 9 6 *
D 3 6 2 8 7
E 5 6 10 4 3
What should be the allocation of the pilots to flights in order to meet as many preferences as possible?
12. The subsequent table provide the activities in a construction project and other relevant info :

Activity
Immediate Predecessor Time (months) Direct Cost
(Rs. '000)
Normal Crash Normal Crash
A — 4 3 60 90
B — 6 4 150 250
C — 2 1 38 60
D A 5 3 150 250
E C 2 2 100 100
F A 7 5 115 175
G D, B, E 4 2 100 240
Indirect costs vary as follows :
Months : 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6
Cost (Rs.) : 600 500 400 250 175 100 75 50 35 25
(a) Draw an arrow diagram for the project.
(b) Determine the project duration which will outcome in minimum total project cost.
13. A truck-owner obtains from his past experience that the maintenance costs are Rs. 200 for the 1st year and then increase by Rs. 2,000 every year. The cost of the truck kind A is Rs. 1,90,000. Determine the best age at which to change the truck. If the optimum replacement is followed, what will be the avg. yearly cost of owning and operating the truck?
Truck kind B costs Rs. 2,00,000. Annual operating costs are Rs. 4,000 for the 1st year and then increase by Rs. 800 every year. The truck-owner has now the truck kind A which is 1 year old. Should it be changed by B type? And if so, when?
14. Solve the subsequent LP issue and add your comments on the identical :
Max.
Subject to

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